Okay, so I believe that this is the 6th chapter? Wow. A lot has happened. Well, I bet y'all just want to get on with the story, so I'm going to stop talking now. Enjoy.

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I didn't want to go. I really didn't. But fate has a cruel heart, and I just happened to be stuck with a choice made for me. As I walked over the hill to begin my journey, I thought of what had happened just hours ago.

A few hours earlier…..

"He has a quest for you. One that will greatly affect the future."

Gulp. That hit me straight on. I didn't really talk much as the satyr led me to the Big House, for a conference with Chiron. When I got there, Chiron was in his wheelchair, looking disdained.

He tried to lighten up. "Well, I hope you had fun at the dance Percy."

"Chiron, I know this wasn't what you called me for." I replied. "What do I have to do?"

Chiron sighed, then said, "Well, Percy, 'tis better to let the gods explain to you."

"What? Why do we—"

Then, we were gone.

Next thing I knew, we were on Olympus, with all 12 of the gods—even Hades—were assembles. I looked around, and saw that all of them had grim faces, even Aphrodite. She also had a tint of excitement. Uh-oh. I know that face all too well; she had plans to break hearts and sow them back together, as she had done to Annabeth and me. Chiron nudged me forward, and told me to address Zeus, as was custom.

As I was did, Zeus spoke up. "That's enough, we don't have much time."

I was shocked, because normally Zeus is like, "I demand respect, bla bla bla."

"Perseus Jackson, we have summoned you to tell you that an uprising against us is beginning."

I didn't seem to think this was a problem. "This ain't too bad. I mean, all we have to do is bring the camp over, and stop—"

Ares interrupted me. "Is this kid stupid? We just finished a war, and now….." He shook his head. "Athena, please explain to this knucklehead why we can't start another war, as much as I'd like to."

Athena spoke up. "What Ares is trying to say, Percy, is that we cannot afford another war. We lost so many already to the Titan war. If we had another battle, the casualties would be high and moral would drop to an all-time low, especially because of what we're dealing with."

Okay, so now I'm kind of getting it. But, if this is just a small uprising, then why would we go to war over it?

"But Lady Athena," I said, "If it's just an uprising, why must we go to war?"

This time Artemis answered my question. "Because, Percy, of what they're doing."

"Well, what are these rogue demigods doing?"

The gods squirmed uncomfortably, and finally Hephaestus spoke. "Well, we, um, don't exactly know what they're doing. From what Hecate told us, she felt a lot of dark magic emanating from somewhere, and Hermes went to go check it out."

Hermes took over from there. "What I saw was confusing, and extremely disturbing. It was like, magic and science, mixed together. There was a ritual going on as well as chemicals being mixed."

Aphrodite spoke up. "Percy honey, what we believe is going on is that there are half-bloods out there that are still resentful towards us. After the fall of Kronos, they banded together to bring back someone even more powerful and ancient—Ouranos."

If saying Kronos's name dropped the temperature in the room 10 degrees, saying "Ouranos" made it drop 20. I could feel an unearthly chill run down my back. This guy was the same one who threw the Cyclopes and the Hekatonkyries* into Tartarus. Something didn't make much sense though.

"Wait a minute," I said, thinking hard, "if Ouranos is the sky, and Atlas is holding him up, then how are these rogue demigods going to bring him back?"

Apollo let out a snort. "Percy, do you really believe that Ouranos wasn't able to manifest himself into a smaller size? Most of the time back then, at least according to our sources, he stayed in a human to god size form. This didn't limit his power though. That we call the sky is just the remains of Ouranos's original form."

Okay, so we live under an all-powerful giant dead thing. Great. "Alright then, now that we know what's going on, what do you want me to do about it?"

There was a silence, like it was going to be hard to say. Dad finally said, "Percy, we need you to go investigate the situation further."

"Well that's easy enough," I reply, "just let me get some friends—"

Dad interrupted me. "Percy, we can't just do that. These guys are paranoid, and don't accept many new recruits."

"So what is it I have to do?" I say, angered. They want me to do something, but they block every possible entry, except…..horror began to creep into my mind. "No…you can't mean?"

"Yes Percy. We want you to portray betraying the camp, renouncing us. We need you to betray your friends to save them."

Present

I had argued with them about their plan a long time afterwards. I wanted to at least tell Annabeth—especially after our wonderful dance last night. As much as I pleaded with them, they wouldn't even grant me that small mercy. Even Athena, who didn't want Annabeth hurt, wouldn't allow me to. She said it would make my cover more believable—after all, I was the demigod who defeated Kronos. The rebel half-bloods wouldn't accept me so easily lest I left everything behind. That fact didn't make it any harder.

I looked back at the valley of Camp Half-Blood, and said, "Goodbye, Annabeth….I'm sorry."

Okay. A little short I know. Please don't flame me! I have my reasons for it…

So now the plot has started…..is what the gods said true? How will everyone react to Percy's "betrayal"? Want to find out? Then stay tuned and for the love of God, review!

Food for thought: there will be a quest in the next chapter—but not Percy's! Give me your ideas for that.

Also, I am thinking about writing a series just like this one after I'm done with this storyline. Except instead of a quest, it'll be one of those stories that will be a camp story. Y'know, when there's drama and whatnot, and it's just a normal day at camp. It'll probably start after the dance, only with a different ending.

Y'all like the idea? If you do, tell me why, what you'd like to see, among other things, in your review. If you don't tell me, why as well. Once I have all the reviews, I will see what the popular vote is and decide what to do!

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